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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...south (with the occasional portage where necessary) and hugged the Atlantic seacoast on the return leg. In On the Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat, a chatty, cheerful account of his journey, Stone faithfully records his encounters with bewildered locals along the way, although the best parts are the quieter moments, when you can almost hear the plash of a well-plied oar on smooth black water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writing The Waves | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...some ways she has a quieter leadership style,” Stannard-Friel said. “People see Sujean as a friend. She’s a bit more, I think, on your level...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gusmorino's Long Shadow | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Triangle. Across the main road, the strip of guesthouses, bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and accompanying lurid signage expands daily. "I used to grow tomatoes and tobacco, but I can make a lot more money selling shirts," she says. Does she miss the old days? "Well, it used to be quieter. It's not beautiful here like before. But the buses come every day now and they bring lots of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Tarnished Golden Triangle | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...factor behind last week's decision by FBI officials to warn its 56 field offices and federal terrorism task forces of the possibility of terrorist attacks on U.S. shopping malls and supermarkets. Beyond the increasingly pessimistic analysis on the part of U.S. officials, the impetus for the latest warning--quieter than the one four days earlier alerting Americans to possible attacks on Eastern-seaboard banks--was bolstered by comments from captured al-Qaeda strategist Abu Zubaydah, the source for the previous bank warning. Arabic-speaking CIA and FBI personnel continue to interrogate Abu Zubaydah at a secret overseas U.S. facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Palestinian Terror Threat? | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

Today's grim scenes from the West Bank city of Nablus are quieter, accompanied by imprecise reports of "tens of martyrs." The silently rolling footage reveals corpses in every conceivable state: lying in pools of blood, eyes still open in the frozen glance before death, contorted in stairwells, stacked up on shelves, wrapped in floral blankets, awkwardly fit into body bags with limbs poking out, dumped into trucks, lined up in rows of white bags on a dirt road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Images of Death Became Must-See TV | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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